Cubbie Station down to 1pc water capacity

The manager of Australia's biggest cotton farm says water storage at Cubbie Station in Queensland's south-west is down to only 1 per cent of capacity and there has been a massive planting reduction.

The controversial station has planted only 200 hectares of cotton this season. It has the capacity to grow 20,000 hectares.

Cubbie's joint managing director John Grabbe says he hopes this will silence critics who have accused Cubbie of hording water in huge storage dams.

"If there's one benefit of the drought [it is] that it really does highlight what the truth of our water extraction and about our operation, that we're not the great hoarder of water in the Murray Darling basin," he said.